verdaccio/website/versioned_docs/version-5.x/programmatically.md

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verdaccio-programmatically	Node.js API

Verdaccio is a binary command which is available in your enviroment when you install globally the package eg npm i -g verdaccio, but also can be dependency in your project and use it programmatically.

Using fork from child_process module

Using the binary is the faster way to use verdaccio programatically, you need to add to the config file the _debug: true to enable the messaging system, when verdaccio is ready will send verdaccio_started string as message as the following example.

If you are using ESM modules the require won't be available.

export function runRegistry(
  args: string[] = [],
  childOptions: {}
): Promise<ChildProcess> {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        const childFork = fork(require.resolve('verdaccio/bin/verdaccio'), args, childOptions);
    childFork.on('message', (msg: {verdaccio_started: boolean}) => {
      if(msg.verdaccio_started){
        resolve(childFork);
      }
    });
    childFork.on('error', (err: any) => reject([err]));
    childFork.on('disconnect', (err: any) => reject([err]));  
  });
}

You can see the full example on this repository.

https://github.com/juanpicado/verdaccio-fork

Using the module API

Feature available in v5.11.0 and higher.

Using const verdaccio = require('verdaccio'); as the default module is not encoraged, it's deprecated and recommend use runServer for future compability.

There are three ways to use it:

• No input, it will find the config.yaml as is you would run verdaccio in the console.
• With a absolute path.
• With an object (there is a catch here, see below).

    const {runServer} = require('verdaccio');
    const app = await runServer(); // default configuration
    const app = await runServer('./config/config.yaml');
    const app = await runServer({ configuration });
    app.listen(4000, (event) => {
      // do something
    });

With an object you need to add self_path, manually (it's not nice but would be a breaking change changing it now) on v6 this is not longer need it.

      const {runServer, parseConfigFile} = require('verdaccio');
      const configPath = join(__dirname, './config.yaml');
      const c = parseConfigFile(configPath);
      // workaround
      // on v5 the `self_path` still exists and will be removed in v6
      c.self_path = 'foo';
      runServer(c).then(() => {});

Feature available minor than v5.11.0.

This is a valid way but is discoragued for future releases.

const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');
const verdaccio = require('verdaccio').default;
const YAML = require('js-yaml');

const getConfig = () => {
 return YAML.safeLoad(fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'config.yaml'), 'utf8'));
}

const cache = path.join(__dirname, 'cache');
const config = Object.assign({}, getConfig(), {
  self_path: cache
});

verdaccio(config, 6000, cache, '1.0.0', 'verdaccio', (webServer, addrs, pkgName, pkgVersion) => {
  try {
      webServer.unref();
      webServer.listen(addrs.port || addrs.path, addrs.host, () => {
          console.log('verdaccio running');
      });
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
  }
});